I’m still pissing myself that Nielsen and Atkins engineered what they thought would be a contract extension and instead ended up with Nielsen unemployed and Atkins revealed once and for all to be the most arrogant and obnoxious elected official since Larry Glass.

Here’s how it happened: After applying to literally dozens of police departments over the past several years and getting no interest at all, Nielsen finally gets some traction in Bend, OR. He realizes that while he’s a long-shot for the job, given the reams of personnel actions in his file, he might be able to use Bend to leverage Eureka into a contract extension. He does this by leaking the Bend story, and working with Atkins to bring discussion of his contract before the council. They discuss it all right, and decide they’re through with that game-playing shit. Out the bastard goes, and Atkins, who still can’t even grasp how badly she was outplayed, runs from media outlet to media outlet braying about the conspiracy.

In fact, there was a conspiracy. It was led by her and Nielsen. It attempted to use the Bend, OR interviews to strong-arm the city of Eureka into extending the contract of a troubled police chief who did some good things for the city but made many serious and troubling mistakes along the way.

Glass and Atkins would have you believe that the only people who support Nielsen’s firing are old-school EPD officers who enjoyed getting to shoot people just all the time, and now are irritated that their human target practice has come to an end. That’s just stupid. Many of us supported his hiring, supported some of the work he did in Eureka, and also now support moving forward with a new chief who doesn’t get himself and his city caught up in bullshit all the time by trying to play political games with people who are much smarter than him.

Carmen’s got it right. That’s exactly how it happened. Atkins and Nielsen conspired to extend Nielsen’s contract, not in the interests of the city but in the interests of Nielsen who didn’t like the uncertainty of having his contract expire only a few years away from a cush peace officer retirement.

Nielsen had his house on the market for over a year, maybe two. Word on the street is he dropped the price by $70K the week before Atkins special council meeting to extend his contract AND sold it (rumor). Nielsen saw the writing on the wall and I really don’t think his firing was a big surprise to him.

Larry Glass sure is having a hard time with Nielsen’s termination. Atkins too.

Those fireworks in the picture with Larry look illegal? Maybe they’re legal in the county.

Humm, this morning, front page article concerning the uptick in violent crime in Eureka, inside of front page, block letters of continued whinning by the proggies over the dismissed police chief. Love that!

Our dear, darling drug pushing DA, decrying our lack of adequate treament and blaming drugs and ‘behavioral issues” for the crime rate, never a hint that his dismal ability to actually prosecute violent offenders could be contributing to this!

Anyone watch the festivities at tonight’s city council meeting? OMFG, this stuff is better than anything the networks could put on – thank you Humboldt Access!!!

Outflanked, outmaneuvered, and best of all, OUTNUMBERED, the ditchDave crowd was epically smacked down by calm, reasoned and passionate public comment.

If anyone heard a high-pitched scream emanating from old arcata road, it was most certainly Bayside Resident Leisure-Vest Larry howling at the sheer inhumanity of it all – that it couldn’t be a one-sided “community” meeting where he could rant and rail and fingerpoint, screaming at those who differ with him politically.

The woman presented, it must be pointed out, flat out, lied – saying that the remove the CM petition signatures were collected in “only a couple of hours” – uhhhhhh, whadda bout all day yesterday in front of Bayside Resident Leisure-Vest Larry Glass’s Marijuana $$$ laundry operation – oops, I mean the Works?

Linda, you best do some heavy consulting with YOUR puppet masters over at Heraldoville.